rolinho
Portuguese, noun/ʁoˈlĩ.ɲu/
rolinho is spelled R-O-L-I-N-H-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 49,864th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rolinho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “diminutive of rolo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato de conduzir a bola fazendo-a passar entre o vão livre que fica das pernas do adversário quando este…”.
What does rolinho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediminutive of rolo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o ato de conduzir a bola fazendo-a passar entre o vão livre que fica das pernas do adversário quando este está de pé no campo, vindo pós-passagem a ser o primeiro a tocá-la
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rolinho
- rolinhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rolinho?
- Brazil /ʁoˈlĩ.ɲu/
- Brazil [hoˈlĩ.j̃u]
- /ʁoˈlĩ.ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rolinho in Portuguese?
rolinho appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).